Change Log

espeak-ng
espeak

espeak-ng

The espeak-ng project is a fork of the espeak project.

1.52.0

attention! this is the last release witch support the autoconf build system. use cmake to compile espeak-ng.

added cmake build system – djphoenix
Added stress marks to phoneme events – Rotem Dan

bug fixes: * a meny fixes to core C code – djphoenix

android: * Added directBoot support – beqabeqa473 * Integrated ndk-build step into main gradle pipeline

updated languages: * ba (Bashkir) – Andiv06 * be (Belarusian) – Andiv06, bespsm, Alaksiej Stankievič * cmn (Mandarin) – Cameron Wong * en (English) – Bill Dengler * es (Spanish) – Sukil Etxenike, Rmcpantoja, gregodejesus * fa (Persian) – MH * gn (Guarani) – Andiv06 * he (Hebrew) – Omer I.S, Andiv06 * it (Italian) – Christian Leo Mameli * ja (Japanese) – Karl Eick * kl (Greenlandic) – Andiv06 * ky (Kyrgyz) – Andiv06, Valdis Vitolins * lv (Latvian) – Valdis Vitolins * nog (Nogai) – Andiv06, boracasli98 * qdb (Lang Belta) – Andiv06 * qya (Quenya) – Andiv06 * quc (K’iche’) – Andiv06 * ro (Romanian) – Andiv06 * ru (Russian) – Kirill-jjj, a11cf0 * shn (Shan Tay Yai) – ronaldaug * tk (Turkmen) – Andiv06 * tr (Turkish) – Gurbuzguven, Qchristensen * uk (Ukrainian) – Andrij Mizyk * uz (Uzbek) – Andiv06

new languages: * en-Shaw (English, Shavian script) – Luna Rose * ti (Tigrinya) – Biniam Gebremichael * mto (Totontepec Mixe) – Bill Dengler, Elizabeth Resendiz * fo (Faroese) – Andras Eliassen, iSolveIT ApS and Setur.fo/Ravnur * kaa (Karakalpak) – atabekm * xex (Xextan) – Filomena Rocca

1.51

Add support for speechPlayer.
Add more tests to check the various parts of espeak-ng.
Various changes to clean up the codebase (Juho Hiltunen)
Remove support for l_length_mods language option
Restructure “option brackets” language option to “brackets” and “bracketsAnnounced”
Restructure “stressLength” and “stressAdd” language option
New Language option: “lowercaseSentence” for ending a sentence if a period is followed by a lower case letter
Add voice variants
Rename zh to cmn (Mandarin)
Rename zhy to yue (Cantonese)
cmn (Mandarin) now assumes all latin characters all English text Use cmn-latn-pinyin for interpreting latin characters as pinyin
Update list of voice varants for Android application
Add Chromium extension (guest271314)
Replace ieee80.c by a free software implementation (Ulrich Müller)

bug fixes: * Fix reading malformed SSML (Christopher Brannon) * Fix memory allocation (Christopher Brannon) * Fix building and phoneme compilation (John Bowler) * Fix build scripts for Android (Peter Vágner, Minas Tirith Citizen)

documentation: * Add documentation about voice and language options. * Add documentation about dictionary flags.

updated languages: * ar (Arabic) – king-dahmanus * ba (Bashkir) – boracasli98, Valdis Vitolins, Juho Hiltunen * cmn (Mandarin) – Silas S. Brown, Rongcui Dong, Icenowy Zheng, Juho Hiltunen * de (German) – Karl Eick, Henry Krumb * el (Modern Greek) – Reece Dunn (support for variant Greek letter forms) * en (English) – Steven Presser, Ben Talagan * eo (Esperanto) – AlsoScratch * eu (Basque) – agonzalezd * fa (Farsi/Persian) – Shadyar Khodayari * ga (Gaelic (Irish)) Chen, Chien-ting * grc (Ancient Greek) – Reece Dunn (support for variant Greek letter forms) * hak (Hakka Chinese) – Juho Hiltunen * haw (Hawaiian) – Juho Hiltunen * ka (Georgian) – Juho Hiltunen * kok (Konkani) – Juho Hiltunen * nb (Norwegian Bokmål) – Juho Hiltunen * nci (Classical Nahuatl) – Juho Hiltunen * hy (Armenian) – tigransimonyan * ia (Interlingua) – nesrad * it (Italian) – Christian Leo * ja (Japanese) – fukuen, Juho Hiltunen * jbo (Lojban) – Juho Hiltunen, xunsku * lv (Latvian) – Valdis Vitolins * mi (Māori) – boracasli98 * py (Pyash) – Andrii Logan Zvorygin * shn (Shan Tay Yai) – ronaldaug * tr (Turkish) – boracasli98, SeanTolstoyevski * ur (Urdu) – Ejaz Shah * uz (Uzbek) – boracasli98, Valdis Vitolins, Andiv06 * yue (Cantonese) – Andiv06

new languages: * be (Belarusian) – Sergei B * chr (Cherokee) – Michael Conrad * cv (Chuvash) – boracasli98, Valdis Vitolins * en-us-nyc (English, New York City) – Richard Calvi * haw (Hawaiian) – Valdis Vitolins * he (Hebrew) – boracasli98, Valdis Vitolins * io (Ido) – José Miguel López, Valdis Vitolins * lb (Luxembourgish) – Marco Barnig, Valdis Vitolins * ltg (Latgalian) – Valdis Vitolins * nog (Nogai) – boracasli98, Valdis Vitolins * piqd (Klingon) – Valdis Vitolins * qu (Quechua) – Valdis Vitolins * qdb (Lang Belta) – Da Def, Valdis Vitolins * qya (Quenya) – Lucas Werkmeister * sjn (Sindarin) – Lucas Werkmeister * smj (Lule Saami) – Katri Hiovain, Sebastien Le Maguer * th (Thai) – Valdis Vitolins * tk (Turkmen) – boracasli98, Valdis Vitolins * ug (Uyghur) – boracasli98, Valdis Vitolins * uk (Ukrainian) – Valdis Vitolins

1.50 - 2019-11-29

Add a --disable-rpath option to prevent libtool hardcoding rpaths in the executable.
Renamed the hy-arevmda language to hyw, following the 2018-03-30 change to the BCP 47 language subtag registry making the newly registered hyw language code the preferred value for hy-arevmda. This change keeps support for detecting the hy-arevela and hy-arevmda language tags.
Support any length replacement rule strings for the source part of the rule (replacing from the ‘source’ string to the ‘target’ string).
Add more tests to check the various parts of espeak-ng.
Various changes to clean up the codebase.
Fix various compiler warnings (-Winitialized, -Wmissing-prototypes, -Wreturn-type, and -Wunused).

security:

Fix several crashes in the emoji support.
Fix several static analysis issues detected by Coverity Scan.
Fix several static analysis issues detected by Microsoft Visual C++ /analyze.
oss-fuzz support for the SSML logic.
Fix running make check with -fsanitize=address (LLVM AddressSanitizer).

documentation:

document the Kirshenbaum phoneme transcription scheme (used as the basis of espeak phonemes).
document the X-SAMPA phoneme transcription scheme.
document the Conlang X-SAMPA phoneme transcription scheme.

emoji:

Update the emoji to Unicode 11.0.
Update the emoji translations to CLDR 33.1.
gd (Scottish Gaelic)
sd (Sindhi)
yue (Chinese (Cantonese))

new languages:

ba (Bashkir) – tc-dl, Valdis Vitolins
hak (Hakka Chinese) – Chen Chien-ting
ht (Haitian Creole) – Valdis Vitolins
kk (Kazakh) – boracasli14, Valdis Vitolins, Andiv06
py (Pyash) – Logan Streondj
quc (K’iche’) – Valdis Vitolins
ru-lv (Russian Latvia) – Valdis Vitolins
shn (Shan Tay Yai) – ronaldaug
uz (Uzbek) – Valdis Vitolins

updated languages:

af (Afrikaans) – Christo de Klerk
ar (Arabic) – Valdis Vitolins, Mark Readdie, Hesham Assabahi
cmn (Chinese Mandarin) – materia-cccp
de (German) – Reece Dunn, Karl Eick
en (English) – Reece Dunn
fa (Farsi/Persian) – Shadyar Khodayari
fi (Finnish) – Juho Hiltunen
fr (French) – Shallowmallow, Karl Eick, maiido, Reece Dunn
ku (Kurdish) – rojanu
it (Italian) – chrislm
lv (Latvian) – Valdis Vitolins
my (Myanmar/Burmese) – Min Maung
ru (Russian) – Valdis Vitolins, Reece Dunn
sd (Sindhi) – Ejaz Shah
ur (Urdu) – Ejaz Shah
vi (Vietnamese) – Anh Hoang Nguyen

1.49.2 - 2017-09-24

Provide more validation when reading phoneme tables and voice/language files.
Removed support for phoneme equivalence tables. These were disabled in the French and German language files.
Allow pre- as well as post-jump rules in dictionary files.
Support building the Windows version with Visual Studio 2013.
Use language and accent names consistently across the language files.
Group the encoding handling into a single place with a clean interface and tests.
Support all ISO 8859 encodings.
Support for multi-word text replacements in language dictionaries.
Support compiling _emoji dictionary files if present.

bug fixes:

Fix running make clean ; make.
Fix reading stdin buffers larger than 1000.
Fixed various language and parent BCP 47 codes (jp is now ja).
Fixed several crashes and bugs in espeak_SetVoiceByName/Properties.

new languages:

bpy (Bishnupriya Manipuri) – Vardhan
fr-CH (French (Switzerland)) – Claude Beazley
kok (Konkani) – Vardhan
mi (Māori) – Graham Oliver
sd (Sindhi, Arabic script) – Vardhan, Ejaz Shah

updated languages:

af (Afrikaans) – Christo de Klerk
de (German) – Valdis Vitolins
du (Dutch) – Leonard de Ruijter
en (English) – Reece Dunn. Thanks to Kendell Clark for identifying mispronunciations.
fa (Farsi/Persian) – Shadyar Khodayari
fr (French) – Valdis Vitolins; Reece Dunn
gu (Gujarati) – Vardhan
hi (Hindi) – Vardhan
it (Italian) – chrislm
ky (Kyrgyz) – JRMeyer
lv (Latvian) – Valdis Vitolins
mk (Macedonian) – Reece Dunn. Updated the romanization support:
- Don’t map đ and ć to Serbian ђ and ћ (use Macedonian ѓ and ќ instead).
- Support additional romanizations: ISO 9, BGN/PCGN, Cadastre, and MJMS/SSO.
mr (Marathi) – Vardhan
or (Oriya) – Vardhan
ur (Urdu) – Ejaz Shah

Unicode Emoji support (from the Unicode Emoji 5.0, and CLDR 31.0.1 data files):

af (Afrikaans)
am (Amharic)
ar (Arabic)
az (Azerbaijani)
bg (Bulgarian)
bn (Bengali)
bs (Bosnian)
ca (Catalan)
cs (Czech)
cy (Welsh)
da (Danish)
de (German)
el (Greek)
en (English) – American
es (Spanish)
et (Estonian)
eu (Basque)
fa (Farsi/Persian)
fi (Finnish)
fr (French)
ga (Irish Gaelic)
gu (Gujarati)
hi (Hindi)
hr (Croatian)
hu (Hungarian)
hy (Armenian)
id (Indonesian)
is (Icelandic)
it (Italian)
ja (Japanese)
ka (Georgian)
kn (Kannada)
ko (Korean)
ky (Kyrgyz)
lt (Lithuanian)
lv (Latvian)
mk (Macedonian)
ml (Malayalam)
mr (Marathi)
ms (Malay)
my (Myanmar/Burmese)
ne (Nepali)
nl (Dutch)
or (Oriya)
pa (Punjabi)
pl (Polish)
pt (Portuguese) – Brazil
ro (Romanian)
ru (Russian)
si (Sinhala)
sk (Slovak)
sl (Slovenian)
sq (Albanian)
sr (Serbian)
sv (Swedish)
sw (Swahili)
ta (Tamil)
te (Telugu)
tr (Turkish)
ur (Urdu)
vi (Vietnamese)
zh (Chinese)

1.49.1 - 2017-01-21

Vim syntax support for rule files.
Replace ieee80.c with the implementation at http://www.realitypixels.com/turk/opensource/ToFromIEEE.c.txt for Debian open source license compliance.
Documentation updates.
Emscripten support.
Merged the Android port into the main espeak-ng codebase.
Extend --compile-phoneme to support specifying the source directory for phoneme files.
Support using any directory as the data home, not just espeak-ng-data.
Don’t install the default voice: use en as the default voice.

NOTE: The merger of the Android code is currently experimental. It is missing support for recognising Unicode characters.

bug fixes:

Fix .Lnn rule groups to allow groups above 62.
Fix reporting the eSpeak NG version in the --version string and Windows installer.
Fix a crash when calling LoadDictionary when using clang.
Threading fixes and Mac OSX portability for the fifo and event code.
Fixes for running the spect code on big-endian architectures.
Fix determining the voice directory when installing the 32-bit Windows binaries on a 64-bit Windows system.
Fix a regression with the saved parameter logic.
Reduce the default buffer length to 60mS to improve latency.
Don’t override buffer length when using espeak-ng for audio.
Fix detecting doubled consonants when using Unicode characters.
Fix speaking 1,,2, etc. in languages that use , as a decimal separator.

updated languages:

af (Afrikaans) – Christo de Klerk
en (English) – Valdis Vitolins
fa (Farsi/Persian) – Shadyar Khodayari
it (Italian) – chrislm
ky (Kyrgyz) – JRMeyer
lv (Latvian) – Valdis Vitolins
tr (Turkish) – Valdis Vitolins

new languages:

ar (Arabic) – Taha Zerrouki
jp (Japanese) – Reece Dunn (NOTE: Hiragana and Katakana only.)

1.49.0 - 2016-09-10

Support the --compile-mbrola command-line option.
Support the --compile-phonemes command-line option.
Support the --compile-intonations command-line option.
Support SSML <phoneme alphabet=”espeak” ph=”…“> tags.
Added man files for the speak-ng and espeak-ng command-line programs.
Created a companion espeak-ng API to provide more detailed error codes and provide access to the new espeak-ng functionality.
Fixed many logic and security issues reported by clang scan-build, Coverity and msvc /analyze.
Group languages by their language family and use BCP47 compliant names.
Support for Windows and BSD platforms.
Removed support for WinCE, MS-DOS and RiscOS.
Add support for maintainer and status field in voice files for tracking voice maintenance.
Vim syntax highlighting for espeak dictionary (list and rules) files.
Support reading input from named pipes.
Fix wav file truncation when reading multiline text from stdin or a named pipe.

build:

Build the code with a C99 compiler, instead of a C++ compiler.
Provide a pkg-config file (patch by Luke Yelavich).
Use -fPIC to support sparc/sparc64 architectures.
Removed the local portaudio header files.
Use the system’s sonic library and header files.
Output phoneme compilation errors to stderr.
Generate build failures if building phoneme, intonation or dictionary files contain errors.
Provide modern Visual Studio project files to build eSpeak NG on Windows, with a WiX-based project to create an MSI installer.
Use the NetBSD getopt_long implementation on Windows.

restructuring:

Moved the library code to src/libespeak-ng.
Renamed espeak to espeak-ng.
Renamed speak to speak-ng.
Use the libespeak-ng API in speak-ng using a shared implementation with espeak-ng.
Moved the code to build the mbrola voice data, phoneme tables and intonation data to libespeak-ng.
Removed the espeakedit program and the associated wxWidgets dependency.
Removed the platforms directory and approaching portability in a similar way to how libressl handles portability.
Converted the documentation to markdown.
Group the Windows and POSIX mbrowrap code to provide the mbrowrap.h implementation in a single place.
Replaced the audio APIs with PCAudioLib to improve portability of the audio and to share that across different projects.
Reworked the synchronous audio to share the code paths with asynchronous audio.

cleanup:

Removed unused/empty internal header files.
Removed unused and commented out code.
Reformatted the code to use a consistent style and indentation.
Fixed many GCC and clang warnings.
Improved the error handling within the codebase to report the underlying error where possible.
Inlined several wrapper methods that were adding little/no value.

updated languages:

en (English) – Thanks to Kendell Clark for identifying mispronunciations.
el (Greek) : improved polytonic Greek support
es (Spanish) : ChrisLeo (improved intonations)
fa (Persian) – Shadyar Khodayari
fr (French) – Thomas Guillory
ga (Irish Gaelic) – Jim Regan
it (Italian) – ChrisLeo
lv (Latvian) – Valdis Vitolins

new languages:

gn (Guarani) – ChrisLeo
ky (Kyrgyz) – JRMeyer
mb-br2 (Brazillian Portuguese)
mb-de* (German) : extend support coverage of the German MBROLA voices
mb-lt1 (Lithuanian) – embar
mb-lt2 (Lithuanian) – embar
mt (Maltese)
my (Myanmar/Burmese) – Min Maung, Lwin Moe
tn (Setswana)
tt (Tatar)

espeak

The espeak project was developed by Jonathan Duddington.

This history log is for a fork of the espeak project maintained by Reece H. Dunn. This project was designed to:

Make it easier to build espeak on POSIX systems.
Keep track of the source code releases that differed from the releases in the subversion repository.

1.48.11 - 2014-08-31

Support building the MBROLA voice files.
mbrola/de6 support for syllabic m and syllabic n.

1.47.14 - 2013-12-03

Support building with the extended Chinese and Russian dictionary data.

1.47.13 - 2013-10-22

updated languages:

om (Oromo)

1.47.12 - 2013-10-12

Added the NVDA voice variants.
Do not crash if espeak_SetPunctuationList is called with a NULL punctuation list.
Fix a segfault in GetTranslatedPhonemeString.

new languages:

om (Oromo)

build:

Support the --with-async configure option.
Support the --with-sonic configure option.
Support the --with-mbrola configure option.
Support the --with-klatt configure option.
Support the --with-sada configure option.
More build improvements.

1.46.23 - 2012-09-11

Converted the build to use autotools.

1.46.11 - 2011-12-31

Support building all the voice dictionaries.
More build improvements.

1.43.46 - 2010-06-28

Initial build changes to make it easier to build espeak on POSIX systems.